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A Planetary Mass and Stellar Radius Relationship for Exoplanets Orbiting Red Giants

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2021-05-17 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

A scatter plot of exoplanet mass against red giant host star radius demonstrates an interesting positive trend: larger stars have more massive planets. This implies that the evolution of a star towards a red giant affects the masses of planets in the system.

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@article{arxiv.1809.09099,
  title  = {A Planetary Mass and Stellar Radius Relationship for Exoplanets Orbiting Red Giants},
  author = {Jonathan H. Jiang and Sheldon Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09099},
  year   = {2021}
}
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